Posts by mwherbs

Right now in my state the paperwork proposal is that within 30 days of booking a client we have to report to the state info on that client and the intended physician back up and hospital that will be used in case of emergencies... They...

It is good that Ohio has a clear set up on this and hopefully the instructions to who ever fills them out are clear . . It has not been the case in my state, or when they did that old Pang study in Washington state- . And in my state...

I think it only gives part of the picture, what if a vbac mom intends to give birth at home but at say 20 weeks she if found to have complete previa- and is followed ever after by the docs, and she has an abruption and a late loss . Her...

I agree the water decreases the concentrated bacteria there is when doing a land birth.

Sorry

Sounds uncomfortable, the older days we were shaved and given HIGH enemas because thru the course of labor there is time for more to move down- our intestines are pretty long. Many women will have a little bit of loose bowels when going...

I have had emergency transfers that i would have transfered in private car had I known it would take so long. The worst was 5 min from the hospital- they got lost and parked in the middle of the intersection about 1 block away when they...

Canadian midwives when they were included in that study were still CPMs and that is why they entered their own data into the data base Mothercat. So the thing is that breeches and twins are higher risk both no matter which way the...

When i lived near Oregon one spiritual midwife I knew, only prayed at births-, she would go to the health department and would report the births using the midwife designation, i would guess that even if the laws in Oregon changed to...

I looked at the wonder pages to narrow down mortality rates of twins GA born Method of delivery , So western region 07-08 no twin births reported past 37 weeks. The greatest number of births were between 34-36 weeks and a very high...